Umi Survival
There are places where the kayak has died out, but umiaks are still used, for hunting or travel. Leaf through a stack of National Geographics - at least once a year there is an image of a translucent skin boat out in a field of ice. Lots of times it's a picture from Pt. Barrow, where the boats are used for hunting. "Skin boat culture" is alive and well up in the arctic as far as umiaks are concerned. These boats are participating in an unbroken skin boat tradition of thousands of years...